⚓️ Thomas Becket Option

I mean at this point

CETACEAN PROBE CLIMATE HOLOCAUST '26

⚓ Please pray for pastors tomorrow who are inevitably going to be considered simultaneously too left but somehow also "kinda fash"

Sorry I meant someone else pointed out that Bella Ciao is also referenced in Hearts of Iron 4

I saw a reference to Hearts of Iron 4

I was close, looks like it may be the Helldivers Stratagem

Esp since Kirk absolutely wouldn’t want to be in Valhalla

Psst the Konami Code is often written as a series of arrows interspersed with AB as needed

“Manifest” is the language of the present pseudo-Deism. It is not the language of Christian orthodoxy nor orthopraxy

As an honorary Basic White Girl, I have to oppose all pumpkin slander. Trade it with strawberry rhubarb

I’m so sorry to hear of your impending demise

It’s because they see the literal lives of the poor, foreigners, and ppl who they simply don’t like as fundamentally less important than the temporary comforts and prosperity of their peers

The Venn Diagram of the two is likely very nearly a circle

If items 1-5 aren’t some version of “do not trust psychotherapy to disembodied spirits” it is literally useless and contributes to further harm

And for Christians there’s a difference between praying for the downfall of antigospel and antichrist affections/spiritual influences vs actively praying for the death and destruction of sinners

Love your neighbor which includes your enemy

I’ve said it before somewhere but humanity falling under the spell of the utterly stupidest Antichrist delusion would be extremely On Brand

We traded away the Garden for a really good looking fruit

At least part of the shame of those facing the second death will be how easily they were duped

Which ofc is more horrible

It really is Left Behind but as farce

Like God went “hey you guys were so worried about a popular antichrist from the left so I’m going to let a dumber less plausible false messiah arise that strokes your priors”

Either way I don’t think he actually buys into it, I think he just gets off on being somebody’s hero

I *may* be a little heated over this whole Left Behind except as farce dealio

Except I think depending on the specific Gnosticism isn’t the demiurge like the evil creator god a la Marcionism? So he *is* the messiah in their view if they weren’t so cowardly as to seek to use the crucified Jesus as a human-divine shield

Everyone knows the true gospel is told only to level 99 adherents of Master Mani’s sacred school

Look at these fools thinking salvation is a free gift real loser energy up in this place rotflmaowtfbbq

Yes, I’m just unconvinced that he actually views himself as part of Q so much as just the object of their adoration

His whole thing is he’s a winner, not an adherent of an esoteric apocalyptic cult

In short, vile competitive messianic posturing, absolutely; 47 joined a neo-gnostic cult… I’m unconvinced

Ofc if I’m taking you entirely too literally/seriously and this is just good-natured poasting please ignore me

Meh, I think it’s pandering of the highest order to QAnon (Q in left hand, vague references to the Storm/What is Coming, pseudo-apocalyptic imagery) but mostly just his Imperator wannabe schtick as per usual.

Also, all kinds of indicators that he is just sharing what someone else made

WSJ, weirdly enough, has been surprisingly robust in challenging the administration’s narratives

Dunno how much I would say they are the paper “of record”

⚓️ We had a (conditional) baptism this morning… young man who grew up non-denom, baptized according to Acts 2:38, very uncertain about whether his baptism was valid. One of the very few instances I agree with “rebaptism” though I think this was mainly about removing scruples and ambiguity

Dew hwhut

A quite important distinction! And I also struggle with that intercession-focused prayer and treating God as the unjust judge (completely misunderstanding the intent of the parable)

I think I latched onto the Prosperity gospel piece. The reduction of prayer to the purely transactional is indeed a common issue.

I apologize, I realize I should have stopped at the request for the Fr’s teaching rather than supply a personal anecdote.

I wasn’t trying to “prove” anything, just supplying an example where I regularly pray for direct intervention and it certainly seems that God hears & grants my petitions.

Ok yes, I agree with that, and certainly some of those fly under the banner of evangelical Protestantism (and are uncomfortably ascendant under the current regime). My gentle pushback is that those are comparatively small but incredibly vocal voices within the evangelical millieu